A rip roaring good time with all the hints of the Kit Rocha I fell in love with while reading the Beyond Series. Tension for days, amazing world building, a cast of characters you'll be rooting for until the end. Seeing a jaded and hardened soldier like Knox fall for the badass Nina and struggling to identify what that suspicious thumping in his chest was all about was delicious.

An amazing start to a new series, I enjoyed the chapters told from the secondary characters' POVs because I know we'll get to see more of them in the future. While this story is set in a dystopia, Rocha brings enough hope and heart to make it entirely readable even during these bleak times.

I don't want to say much more about the plot because this is best entered into knowing the bare minimum so you can gasp along with the twist and turns but there is definitely gun violence and medical gore/wounds in this story, along with drinking.

Thank you to the publisher for the ARC!